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Series consists of nurses’ day books jointly maintained by the TGH School of Nursing and Department of Nursing. Files 1.1.6.1 to 1.1.6.3 contain a daily log of service performed by TGH nurse administrators, head nurses, dietitians, graduate nurses and student nurses, including names; location (department, ward, building) of service; notes on vacations, leaves of absence, illness and disciplinary measures imposed for misconduct. File 1.1.6.4 is a daily log of service performed in the TGH Burnside Obstetrical Wing by TGH School of Nursing students and students from affiliated schools of nursing, including names, TGH School of Nursing class year or affiliated school, ward/floor and hours worked each day, and date of course completion.

Series consists of various materials documenting the TGH School of Nursing’s administrative structure; curriculum, including course calendars and reports detailing major changes in the duration and content of the education program; procedures for evaluating students; reporting standards, policies and obligations to professional nurse registering bodies; and rules and regulations governing student life.

Files 1.1.10.16 to 1.1.10.19 contain copies of course calendars distributed by the School 1931-1972. Calendars for 1932/1933, 1933/1934, 1936/1937, 1937/1938, 1939/1940, 1940/1941, 1941/1942, 1942/1943, 1945/1946, 1946/1947, 1948/1949, 1969 and 1971 are missing. Dating of calendars produced for the 1950s (file 1.1.10.17) and 1960s (file 1.1.10.18) is uncertain.

Series consists of 8 binders of course curriculum and 1 record book, which were maintained by the Department of Nursing Education along with student transcripts. File 1.1.13.1 consists of an oversized record book containing the examination grades for all students from the class of 1961 until the class of 1970, organized by class and then by courses within each year. The examination records for the Hospital for Sick Children Medical Surgical Nursing Lectures and Hospital for Sick Children Obstetrical Nursing course, for the same time period, are also included in this volume. Courses for which curriculum is provided include Philosophy of Nursing, Nursing I-III, Paediatric Nursing, and Psychiatric Nursing. Some of the binders contain a copy of the final examination, and class lists including individual addresses and marks. A more extensive course and curriculum list is provided for years 1970-1974.

Sub-series contains a 10% sample of the records of students in graduating classes 1929-1939.

Sub-series contains a 10% sample of the records of students who graduated in 1946.

Sub-series contains a 10% sample of the records of students who graduated in 1948.

Series consists of the permanent student academic records files created and maintained by the Grace Hospital Training School for Nurses. Records contained in individual files vary according to the date of creation, but may include student history cards containing grades, instructors’ assessments, dates of admission to the School and completion of course; certificates of preliminary education (high school academic records); reports from affiliated Hospitals, schools of nursing, and/ or education programs which students attended to receive specialized training and experience; and medical records. Some files also contain materials subsequently added, including letters from students or their agents requesting letters of reference for employment or information contained in their files, applications for employment in the Nursing Department of the Grace Hospital and the Toronto Western Hospital and employment records.

Series includes all records for students in graduating classes up to and including 1920, and a 10% sample of records for students in post-1920 graduating classes. File 1.3.1.44 contains miscellaneous records for students in graduating classes 1912-1923. File 1.3.1.45 contains a list of graduates of the School 1892-1928.

Series consists of the annual reports of The Toronto Hospital Corporation, prepared and published by TTH Department of Public Affairs and Communications on behalf of TTH Board of Trustees.

Reports contain such information as lists of administrative and medical staff; statistics and/or departmental reports illustrating major hospital functions, services and activities; summary reports by the chairman of the Board of Trustees and the President identifying and describing significant TTH accomplishments and events; annual financial statements outlining the Hospital’s revenues and expenses; photographs and illustrations depicting Hospital buildings, facilities, services and staff.

Series consists of photographs taken and collected by the Department during the time of David Allen as part of the Public Relations Department’s Photo and Slide Library. Files include photographs of Administration (former and current) of The Toronto Hospital, Trustees, Auxiliary, Dignitaries and Celebrities, Medical Staff, Residents, and so-called “historical archive files” referring to photographs of buildings, sites and past events. Some of the files also include newspaper clippings, enlargement and usage notations, speeches or programs, cataloguing information, consent forms, and mock-ups or samples of publications for which the photographs were used. Photographs were used for publications and other activities of this Department. Some of the material may also have been produced or used by IMS Creative Communications, a sub-department reporting to the Toronto General Hospital’s Public Relations Department.

Original consent forms are not part of this series. The original file list can be found in file 2.4.1. Subject files are arranged alphabetically. Staff and students are listed by their surname and then their given name. Headings have been included in the file list to indicate index tabs. Handwritten changes and additions to original file titles have been included as part of the file title.

File 2.4.52 includes correspondence from A. Hudson.

File 2.4.78 is of a patient who lived in the Toronto General Hospital for approximately 30 years of her life.

File 2.4.146 includes a ribbon-cutting photograph from the official opening of the Fraser M Fell Pavilion.

File 2.4.155 includes a photograph of American actor Mickey Rooney.

File 2.4.228 includes a photograph of American actor Mary Tyler Moore.

File 2.4.403 includes a biographical statement from Mr. Mickevicius.

File 2.4.426 includes a reproduction of an etching of Burnside Hospital in 1878.

File 2.4.428 includes a photograph of TB Outdoor Treatment, 1912 and the medical records department.

File 2.4.447 includes 4 photographs entitled “Fall of Burnside-June 1980” and 1 contact sheet entitled “Burnside demolition”.

File 2.4.450 includes photographs of Dunlap Building demolition.

File 2.4.455 includes photographs of early ambulances.

File 2.4.497 includes portraits of Drs. Rob Inman, Carl Laskin, Darrell Ogilvie-Harris, Rod Davey, Wayne Marshall, and John Craven.

File 2.4.521 includes images depicting cardiac rehab patients undergoing exercise therapy; name of patient removed from file title.

Files 2.4.522 to 2.4.525 were labeled file folders not listed in the departmental file list that came with the initial record transfer. Original order has been maintained.

File 2.4.508 contains a portrait of Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen.

Files 2.4.596 and 2.4.596b contains historical images of Toronto General and Wellesley Hospitals from photographers Herb Knott & Co. Ltd.

File 2.4.599 contains images of the TTH Mascot, Shuttlebug.

File 2.4.607 includes images from the dedication of the Percy R. Gardiner Coronary Unit in June 1968.

File 2.4.616 seems to include images from Cardiovascular Research Day 1991, though there is no indication as to why; it could be misfiling from the office of origin.

File 2.4.620 includes images of Dr. Anthony Lane.

File 2.4.641 includes the OCI news release from 1985 regarding the Zeiss EM902 electron microscope and images of Dr. Ottensmeyer.

File 2.4.716 includes images of house staff; residents; Drs. R.M. Janes, Banting, Best, C.L. Starr, Morley, Botterell, Aikens, Beaumont, and Gordon Richards; Louise Eastwood, Charles O’Reilly, Mary Agnes Snively, Miss Balmer, Rev. John D. Strachan, and the original image of TGH nursing students observing an operation ca. 1895. This original image includes the names of the nurses and physicians on the verso.

File 2.4.723a includes images of the Burnside Lying-in Hospital / Maternity Building, TGH on Gerrard, the layout of the 1855 building, historical interiors, and an image of Dr. Don Wilson performing a heart transplant in the TWH OR.

File 2.4.732 includes images of: TGH nurses graduation 1969; clerical staff; early ambulances; cardiovascular surgery; medical equipment; opening of the Donald R. Wilson Centre for Research in Education; Black History Month; original image of neuropathology rounds with Dr. Eric Linell and Drs. Hyland, Tom, Lloyd, Woolen, and Wong; group shot from the retirement party for K.G. McKenzie with all staff identified; diabetic diet kitchen, college wing ca. 1930; group shot of Capt. Boddington, Major Hyland, Colonol Crass, Major Botterell, Capt. Richardson and Capt. McCormick taken by the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, University of Toronto, September 1940; Burnside Lying-In Hospital; undated original photograph of TGH house staff with babies ca. 1920s; TGH Emergency Department; patient-model reading “Our Bodies Our Selves”; The Toronto Hospital Auxiliary Annual General Meeting 1998; Angela Ash posing with her drawings; Toronto Western Hospital Auxiliary 100th Anniversary tea 1997; opening for the Arthritis Centre of Excellence 1998; and “Hats Off” promotional shot for Project 2003.

File 2.4.732c has a group picture of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, Toronto, Canada, November 1958.

File 2.4.836 includes pictures of the facilities in the Private Patients’ Pavilion.

File 2.4.894a includes a letter from Dr. B.S. Goldman regarding the origins of the TGH Pacemaker Club.

File 2.4.915 includes portraits of Drs. John Craver and Colin Shapiro.

File 2.4.920 includes pictures of the unveiling of a plaque and dedication for the John David Eaton Building and the Dunlap Radiological Centre by Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Hon. John Black Aird, November 1980 and a historical plaque unveiling with Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Hon. Pauline McGibbon, June 1980.

File 2.4.923a includes a picture of Dr. S. Herman with radiology residents.

File 2.4.934 has pictures from the nurses’ residence building.

File 2.4.991 includes pictures of Drs. Scott Adams and Luc DeNil.

File 2.4.992 includes pictures of Dr. Ruth Martin.

File 2.4.993 includes pictures of Drs. Ruth Martin and Nick Diamant.

File 2.4.999 includes a group picture of a staff baseball team ca. 1925, as well as pictures of teams from the 1970s-1990s.

File 2.4.1015 includes a pre-1960 picture of the TGH Switchboard.

File 2.4.1023 includes pictures of Drs. K.G. McKenzie, Gordon Murray, Charles Tator, W.G. Bigelow, J. Callaghan, Botterell, J.W. Scott, R. Tasker, J. Mann, Tak Mak, G. Davidson, and Augusta Stowe Gullen.

File 2.4.1025c has a prop-up display for the “Strengthen the hands that heal” fund campaign.

File 2.4.1098b has a picture of patients doing crafts.

File 2.4.1108 includes photographs in which actors are portraying patients. No actual patients are in the images.

File 2.4.1109 includes photographs of Mary Tyler Moore and James Garner while filming at the hospital.

File 2.4.1110 includes sheets of slides from May 3, 1989 of Italian and Canadian flags photographed by Gary Beechey, and a sheet of slides for the Sign up for Life organ donation campaign photographed by Toronto General Hospital Photography.

File 2.4.1127 includes two slides of the first operation conducted in Max Bell.

File 2.4.1133 includes some slides of the transplant operating room and operations.

File 2.4.1149 includes images of the exterior of the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology from 1976 as well as images of early computers used in the hospital.

File 2.4.1167 includes pictures of Dr. Charles Tator, the opening of the Kensington Market Clinic in 1987, and the 1st birthday celebrations for The Toronto Hospital in 1987.

File 2.4.1178 includes images of Philip C. Hassen, CEO and Senior Vice President, 1987

Series consists of bulletins produced on behalf of Medical Affairs by the TTH Department of Public Relations and Communication. The bulletins contained news and announcements to TGH medical staff including appointments, retirements, research and publications, warnings, updates on department procedures, and alerts of revised guidelines and policies. Volume 21, 1992 has not been transferred to the Archives.

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, historical records and photographs created or collected by the Archives and Historical Committee. Material from the Department of Medical Photography and files from the Public Relations Photo and Slide Library are interspersed within these files. Some of this may be due to the dual roles of Committee members, but in the case of files 2.8.49 to 2.8.57 they appear to be files borrowed by the Chair of the Committee. No attempt has been made to rearrange these files according to their original provenance.

File 2.8.1 includes 2 photographs of Nuclear Cardiology from the early 1980s.

File 2.8.2 contains a photograph of a construction site at TGH in July 1977 and a patient handbook from TGH from [198-?].

Files 2.8.10 to 2.8.13 were originally kept in one binder and probably belonged to Peter Edwards, who was at one point Chairman of the Historical Committee. File names are taken from the divider titles.

File 2.8.16 includes a guide for the della Robia style plaques which hung in the Outpatient Clinical in the Mulock/Larkin Wing of the Toronto General Hospital.

File 2.8.30 includes copies of photographs from the 1940s that were made in 1978.

The fonds consists of by-laws and agreements maintained by Medical/Legal Affairs. The fonds includes two series:

4.1 Hospital By-Laws
4.2 Corporate Agreements

Series consists of one file of Medical Staff by-laws from 1991:

4.1.1 Medical Staff By-Laws: January 1991

Fonds consists of one series:

6.1 Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief records

Series consists of two separate accessions of material related to the Toronto General Hospital and accumulated by the Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief.

Files 6.1.1 to 6.1.2 consist of a half-filled bound volume of signatures spanning the time period of April 5, 1935 to January 16, 1959, and an accompanying 5 page description of its history by Ronald J. Baird, Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Senior Cardiovascular Surgeon at The Toronto Hospital. The book of signatures is a combination visitors’ register/attendance book with groups of signatures that do not always indicate the occasion. Some of the occasions noted include post-graduate courses and club meetings, such as for the Interurban Orthopaedic Club, McGill Toronto Surgical Club, and the Cardiovascular Surgeons Club. Notable signatories include Evarts A. Graham, Charles H. Best, Gordon Murray, Frederick G. Banting, Wilder Penfield, and Norman Bethune. Regarding the first pages of this volume, Dr. Baird remarks in his description, “what a galaxie [sic] of future stars in Toronto Surgery!” Dr. Baird’s description gives extensive details as to how the volume came to be in his possession before being passed onto Surgeon-in-Chief, Dr. Paul Walker.

Files 6.1.3 to 6.1.5 consist of various agreements and indentures that were originally kept in one file folder. The file had originally been in the possession of Dr. Alan Hudson, McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief at The Toronto Hospital from 1989-1991, and President and Chief Executive Officer, from 1991-2000. The file had been passed onto his successor Dr. Paul Walker, Vice President Surgical Directorate and Surgeon-in-Chief of The Toronto Hospital during a transfer of office either when Dr. Hudson became President and Chief Executive Officer (1991) or when Dr. Paul Walker resigned as the James McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief (March 31, 1999) to become Vice-President of the Toronto General Hospital (April 1, 1999). Subsequently the file came to be held by Dr. Walker’s successor as McCutcheon Chair in Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief & Director of Surgical Services at University Health Network, Dr. Bryce Taylor (April 1, 1999- ).

Series consists of bound minutes from the Medical Advisory Board of The Toronto Hospital.

Series consists of minutes from the Ambulatory Care Committee and its various subcommittees and/or related committees. Series also includes copies of presentations given to the Committee by various departments within the hospital.

File 7.5.1 includes minutes from the Community Culture Conscious Subcommittee and the House Staff-Liaison Committee. File 7.5.2 includes minutes from the Community Services Subcommittee. File 7.5.3 includes minutes from the Emergency Subcommittee. File 7.5.4 includes minutes from the Executive Committee of the Medical Advisory Board. File 7.5.5 includes minutes from the Community Service Subcommittee. File 7.5.6 includes minutes from the Community Services Subcommittee.

Series consists of the draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of TTH Board of Trustees Human Resources Committee. File 8.7.17 includes a draft organizational chart of the hospital dated December 7, 1992. The official minutes for these years have not been transferred to the Archives.

The fonds includes four series of records from the Office of the President:

9.1 Miscellaneous records
9.2 Correspondence and administration
9.3 Board of Trustees correspondence
9.4. Audit reports

Series consists of audit reports and financial statements from various TGH departments between 1948 and 1991. These reports were accumulated by TTH Office of the President.